The Dying

The Sisters remain with patients when medicine can no longer cure them. They ease pain, provide comfort, help families through the final hours, and protect the dignity and wishes of the dying wherever circumstances allow.

The Last Mercy

When a patient is beyond reasonable hope of recovery and faces only a prolonged and terrible death, the Sisters' faith permits them to assist that person in passing gently and with dignity. The choice belongs to a lucid patient whenever possible, and the act is treated as a solemn mercy rather than convenience, punishment, or judgment upon the value of a life.

The Sisters do not hasten death merely because a patient is difficult to treat, disabled, elderly, or burdensome to others. Their purpose is to relieve unavoidable suffering when healing has truly failed.

The Church tolerates this ancient practice and publicly associates the Sisters with Cerosian mercy, though the Order's authority in such matters rests heavily upon its own traditions and the trust it has earned over generations.